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Pharmacy Network PHARMACISTS have only one week left until the Pharmacy Business Network Event on 13-16 Sep in Canberra, see p3 for details.
Donate blood in Adl ADELAIDIANS now have a new centre to spill blood, with the opening of the Regent Blood Donor Centre in the Regent Arcade in Grenfell Street. The new facility is Australia’s largest donor centre, cost around $4 million to build and features state-of-the-art facilities, extended opening hours, a 36-couch capacity and a contemporary design. “Ensuring a secure supply of blood to meet the clinical needs of patients is vital,” said Commonwealth Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing Catherine King. “The location of this new donor centre in the Adelaide CBD will make the centre more accessible to the Adelaide community and ensure that blood donation is easier for donors,” King added.
Linzess approval THE US Food and Drug Administration has approved Linzess (linaclotide) to treat chronic idiopathic constipation and to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) in adults. Linzess is a capsule taken once daily on an empty stomach.
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Complementary framework THE Australian Self-Medication Industry has lauded the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s transparency in its decision to publish details of its compliance review framework for listed complementary medicines. “ASMI has long called for a more rigorous and effective regime to ensure the compliance of listed medicines,” said ASMI Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Director, Steve Scarff. “We are pleased that the TGA has published their framework for conducting compliance reviews. “This increase in transparency will be of benefit to both consumers and sponsors and we look forward to seeing the published outcomes,” Scarff added. Scarff went further to say that all claims made about complementary medicines should be supported with evidence so that consumers can use them with confidence. “It is clear that there have been a number of questionable products without appropriate evidence in recent years,” he said. “This causes damage to the industry, and we support a strengthened framework for advertising controls, as well as appropriate sanctions, penalties and complaints handling processes,” he added. According to Scarff a “strong and effective advertising framework”
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should include clear, published guidelines, retain the existing selfregulatory processes within a broader co-regulatory system, and apply to all advertisers regardless of membership of any industry association. Scarff also said that the framework should apply to all advertising regardless of the medium employed or the audience targeted; provide timely, consistent and transparent complaints mechanisms, and impose effective sanctions. “The transparency created by the TGA is a positive step, but much will depend on the detailed plan associated with how the monitoring and review will be conducted in practice, and whether sufficient resources will be devoted to the area to ensure the approach is effective,” he said.
Biosciences Precinct THIS week marks the opening of the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Biosciences Research Precinct. Costing $35 million, the Precinct is designed to the search for new and improved methods of diagnosis and the discovery of medicines key to fighting chronic diseases afflicting people worldwide. Key areas of focus for the Precinct include diabetes, tissue engineering, cancer, stem cell and pharmaceutical research. The ground floor of the Precinct includes a Model Pharmacy practice teaching space.
Risk management THE TGA has published updated risk management plan questions & answers onto its website. To view the documents visit www.tga.gov.au.
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